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- Title
Détente from the Air.
- Authors
ROTHSCHILD, RACHEL
- Abstract
During the period of detente in the 1970s, a Norwegian proposal to construct an air pollution monitoring network for the European continent resulted in the first concrete collaboration between the communist and capitalist blocs after the 1975 Helsinki Accords. Known as the "Europeanwide monitoring programme" or EMEP, the network earned considerable praise from diplomats for facilitating cooperation across the Iron Curtain. Yet as this article argues, EMEP was strongly influenced by the politics of detente and the constraints of the Cold War even as it helped to decrease tensions. Concerns about national security and sharing data with the enemy shaped both the construction of the monitoring network and the modeling of pollution transport. The article also proposes that environmental monitoring systems like EMEP reveal the ways in which observational technologies can affect conceptions of the natural world and the role of science in public policy.
- Subjects
EUROPE; AIR pollution; DETENTE; COLD War, 1945-1991
- Publication
Technology & Culture, 2016, Vol 57, Issue 4, p831
- ISSN
0040-165X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/tech.2016.0109